Lead/Staff Software Engineer - iOS (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get to Know our Team:

The Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for key contributors to our industry leading iOS app. You'll be working on a product that has evolved tremendously over the past few years to become a global market leader - but still has a lot of room to grow.

You’ll be using the most current technologies and best practices to accomplish our goals. Our typical day involves the creation of new end to end systems, building advanced architectures, creation of new features on our high uptime / frequently published App, development of fast and reliable automated testing systems and working in a culture that is always looking to improve our quality, tools, and efficiency.

In this Role, you get to do:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining iOS applications that integrate with the platform's core services and APIs
• Working closely with designers, product managers, and other developers to define requirements, design features, and deliver a cohesive user experience
• Establishing and enforcing best practices for app testing and quality assurance
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for optimization across the technology stack, focusing on cost, efficiency, velocity & dev happiness
• Enabling impactful collaboration and cross-team projects on big projects, making a dent in the quality of our services, code & architecture
• Providing thoughtful feedback, nurture an inclusive engineering environment, and champion engineering fundamentals. Bring out the best from your fellow engineers.
• Exhibiting technical leadership throughout the broader organization, conveying complex technical trade-offs to non-techies such as business owners & C-suite executives.

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in engineering roles.
• Proficient in iOS native development (Swift, Objective-C) and cross-platform programming languages (Dart, JavaScript)
• Proven hands-on experience with owning production services with significant impact on design, development, deployment, monitoring & evolution
• Curiosity, staying on the cutting-edge of technological improvements and open-source advancement.
• Advanced proficiency in modern App development frameworks and architectural choices
• Highly skilled in modern mobile and server-side coding and design practices, such as MVVM, MVP, VIPER, SOLID principles, and TDD
• Advanced understanding of cross-platform technology usage in mobile App development like React Native, Web-views, flutter etc.
• Practical experience with Agile methodologies, analytics, A/B testing, and GIT Flow.
• Deep understanding of app development challenges and solutions
• Expert-level knowledge of testing methodologies, tools, and best practices
• Proven track record of optimizing applications for better performance
• Strong understanding of security and accessibility standards
• Demonstrates strong research skills and sound decision-making on complex projects
• Equally effective working independently or collaboratively within a team
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical details to stakeholders at all levels.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

It's Great if you have:

• Experience in multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
• Have worked on an App or Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
• Experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
• Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)

Key skills/competency

• iOS Development
• Swift
• Objective-C
• Mobile App Development
• Software Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Automated Testing
• Performance Optimization
• Technical Leadership
• Cross-functional Collaboration